"John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that accelerated environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 C.E.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers, biological invasions, commercial hunting of wildlife, and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending...

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1. Verfasser:	Richards, John F. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2003
Schriftenreihe:	The California world history library 1
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1500-1800 Homme - Influence sur la nature - Histoire Mens en natuur Milieuverandering Wereldgeschiedenis Écologie humaine - Histoire Geschichte Human ecology > History Nature > Effect of human beings on > History Umwelt Anthropogener Einfluss Umweltveränderung Humanökologie
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Zusammenfassung:	"John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that accelerated environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 C.E.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers, biological invasions, commercial hunting of wildlife, and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China and sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Richards shows how humans - whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock, hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes - altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	XIV, 682 S. Kt.
ISBN:	0520230752